A bent cop was jailed for four years for selling a police book containing secret details of informants to a drug dealer for cash, a £20,000 BMW and football tickets.

PC Philip Berry, 42, an ex-intelligence officer with Greater Manchester Police drugs unit sold the the A-Z of drug dealers and informants as his debts piled up. Berry admitted misconduct in a public office but was released because he had served half his sentence while in custody. Judge Peter Lakin told him: "You intended this to be an on-going corrupt relationship.

You have tarnished the good name of the police and left your wife to pick up the pieces."

The drug dealer, Gary Knox, 34, was jailed for six years for conspiracy.